Revolutionary Pacifism: Choices and Prospects by Noam Chomsky + Interview + Speech

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Updated: Nov. 10, 2011; added video of Chomsky’s speech.

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by Noam Chomsky
ZCommunications
November 03, 2011

2011 City of Sydney Peace Prize Lecture

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For centuries, Europe had been the most violent place on earth, with murderous and destructive internal conflicts and the forging of a culture of war that enabled Europe to conquer most of the world, shocking the victims, who were hardly pacifists, but were “appalled by the all-destructive fury of European warfare,” in the words of British military historian Geoffrey Parker. And enabled Europe to impose on its conquests what Adam Smith called “the savage injustice of the Europeans,” England in the lead, as he did not fail to emphasize. The global conquest took a particularly horrifying form in what is sometimes called “the Anglosphere,” England and its offshoots, settler-colonial societies in which the indigenous societies were devastated and their people dispersed or exterminated. But since 1945 Europe has become internally the most peaceful and in many ways most humane region of the earth – which is the source of some its current travail, an important topic that I will have to put aside.

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via ZCommunications | 2011 City of Sydney Peace Prize Lecture by Noam Chomsky | ZNet Article

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WorldNewsAustralia on Nov 2, 2011

US philosopher Noam Chomsky talks about the transformation taking place in the Arab world, what lies ahead for Libya and the Middle East conflict.

SBS News – SBS speaks to Noam Chomsky – full interview part one

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SBS News – SBS speaks to Noam Chomsky – full interview part two

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Updated

AAPVid on Nov 7, 2011

Professor of Linguistics and political activist Noam Chomsky is presented with the 2011 Sydney Peace Prize at a gala dinner held in his honour at Sydney University on November 3, 2011. The peace prize is presented to Chomsky by Aboriginal leader and former peace prize recipient Patrick Dodson.

Filmed and edited by Tom Compagnoni for AAP

Noam Chomsky Receives Sydney Peace Prize

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Chomsky On Adam Smith (1995)

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